Bug#446731: live-helper: lenny usb-hdd image doesn't boot anymore

2007-10-16 Thread Daniel Baumann
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > I'm not questioning that. I'm just saying that if one of > LH_LINUX_PACKAGES cannot be installed, it shouldn't continue to generate > the image. that is a problem with aptitude. aptitude does ignore non-existing packages and thus not fail; whereas apt-get does this. afaik,

Bug#446731: live-helper: lenny usb-hdd image doesn't boot anymore

2007-10-16 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 16/10/07 at 07:02 +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > I'm not sure I understand how: people with custom kernels could just set > > LH_LINUX_PACKAGES to "", no? > > it would be 'none', not "", otherwise it gets set to the default. > > however; checking for unionfs or aufs c

Bug#446731: live-helper: lenny usb-hdd image doesn't boot anymore

2007-10-15 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 15/10/07 at 16:58 -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 10:09:04PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > On 15/10/07 at 21:09 +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > > > Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > > Why not stop in that case? > > > > > > because it would unecessarily block people with custom

Bug#446731: live-helper: lenny usb-hdd image doesn't boot anymore

2007-10-15 Thread Daniel Baumann
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > I'm not sure I understand how: people with custom kernels could just set > LH_LINUX_PACKAGES to "", no? it would be 'none', not "", otherwise it gets set to the default. however; checking for unionfs or aufs cannot be made reliable; you can't know how the user is implement

Bug#446731: live-helper: lenny usb-hdd image doesn't boot anymore

2007-10-15 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 10:09:04PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 15/10/07 at 21:09 +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > > Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > Why not stop in that case? > > > > because it would unecessarily block people with custom kernels. > > I'm not sure I understand how: people with cus

Bug#446731: live-helper: lenny usb-hdd image doesn't boot anymore

2007-10-15 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 15/10/07 at 21:09 +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > Why not stop in that case? > > because it would unecessarily block people with custom kernels. I'm not sure I understand how: people with custom kernels could just set LH_LINUX_PACKAGES to "", no? Also, I really think

Bug#446731: live-helper: lenny usb-hdd image doesn't boot anymore

2007-10-15 Thread Daniel Baumann
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Why not stop in that case? because it would unecessarily block people with custom kernels. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/ --

Bug#446731: live-helper: lenny usb-hdd image doesn't boot anymore

2007-10-15 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 15/10/07 at 10:02 -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 01:10:37PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > On 15/10/07 at 12:30 +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > > > severity 446731 important > > > > > > Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > > I use unionfs, but ran into the same problem with aufs.

Bug#446731: live-helper: lenny usb-hdd image doesn't boot anymore

2007-10-15 Thread Daniel Baumann
tags 446731 +pending forcemerge 446731 446306 thanks Justin Pryzby wrote: > Until Daniel makes the next upload, setting --union-filesystem aufs > doesn't update LH_LINUX_PACKAGES; you need to manually pass > --linux-packages 'linux-image-2.6 aufs-modules-2.6 squashfs-modulues-2.6' which happens t

Bug#446731: live-helper: lenny usb-hdd image doesn't boot anymore

2007-10-15 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 01:10:37PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 15/10/07 at 12:30 +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > > severity 446731 important > > > > Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > I use unionfs, but ran into the same problem with aufs. > > > > did you also adjust LH_LINUX_PACKAGES, not just LH_

Bug#446731: live-helper: lenny usb-hdd image doesn't boot anymore

2007-10-15 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 15/10/07 at 12:30 +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > severity 446731 important > > Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > I use unionfs, but ran into the same problem with aufs. > > did you also adjust LH_LINUX_PACKAGES, not just LH_UNION_FILESYSTEM? I have: LH_LINUX_PACKAGES="linux-image-2.6 unionfs-modules-

Bug#446731: live-helper: lenny usb-hdd image doesn't boot anymore

2007-10-15 Thread Daniel Baumann
severity 446731 important Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > I use unionfs, but ran into the same problem with aufs. did you also adjust LH_LINUX_PACKAGES, not just LH_UNION_FILESYSTEM? -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet:

Bug#446731: live-helper: lenny usb-hdd image doesn't boot anymore

2007-10-15 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Package: live-helper Version: 1.0~a31-1 Severity: serious Hi, My usb-hdd config, which used to work not so long ago, doesn't work anymore. I use unionfs, but ran into the same problem with aufs. My host is a lenny system, with some unstable packages. I tried live-helper a31 and a29. (a29 worked